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 by manxrav » Tue Jul 12, 2011 9:02 pm
Can confirm road by the Nunnery as been chipped, one hell of a nightmare!!!!!!  YNWA
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by lr18 » Wed Jul 13, 2011 7:32 pm
All the way up the hill by the Manx Cat Sanctuary has been chipped today! I'll be avoiding this road for a couple of days; it was a nightmare, even at 20mph! 
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by manxrav » Wed Jul 13, 2011 8:23 pm
Yes New Castletown Road, absolute nightmare getting home from work today. They must have put tons!!!!! and tons of chips on that today. Wish i could claim for paintwork damage off the DOT, they would have one hell of a bill. Looks like it,s home by St Marks this week
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by =^..^= » Sat Jul 16, 2011 10:21 pm
Fishers hill on the main road between castletown and Port Erin was done this morning (sat 16th) - quite a long stretch - prob 1/2 mile 
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by Yellow Snow » Sat Jul 16, 2011 11:39 pm
loose chipings done damage to my car can i get compo
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by Jay_VTR » Sun Jul 17, 2011 12:01 am
fishers hill has been done as someone else mentioned. its a mega stretch. and there are patches over the mountain at random spots...
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by JayJay » Mon Jul 18, 2011 4:04 pm
Apparently its done to keep the roads in good condition and combat frost? Vaguely remember reading something over the weekend regarding the chipping, and why it was done. Something else about improving the islands roads was said 
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by Jay_VTR » Mon Jul 18, 2011 6:07 pm
Yellow Snow wrote:loose chipings done damage to my car can i get compo
no because you will have been doing over 20mph and not keeping a big enough gap. If you stuck to what the signs said then it wouldn't have happened. I am only guessing this is a question even though there is no ? at the end... Tom wrote:Loved it when i saw it the other day. By far one of the best saxos over here.
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by Nitro » Mon Jul 18, 2011 9:44 pm
They are a bastard, even at 20mph!!
Why the hell they can't use a steam roller is beyond me.
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by Jay_VTR » Wed Jul 20, 2011 5:30 pm
yeah I know what you mean. I asked the old man about it (cos he is the font of all knowledge.... =/ ) and that was his reply. The stuff they put down coming up fishers hill was fe*king DEEP... was fooling around with my stereo and avoided a sign which was met with a proper good squirm from the car... Seems to be alright now!Not a fan of all this chipping business...
I would prefer it if they also repaired the road first...rather than just chipping the potholes to...
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